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External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001

2001, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001 covers 113 countries. São Tomé and Príncipe is highest, at 423.554; Iran is lowest, at 6.511. The middle country reads 60.452. Against 2000, 113 values changed (47 up, 66 down), the same countries are covered.

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External Debt Stocks (% of GNI) · Data for 2001

HighestSão Tomé and Príncipe

423.554

LowestIran

6.511

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 113 countries · select a heading to sort

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa423.554
2LiberiaLBRWestern Africa405.066
3Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa244.775
4Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa226.233
5GuyanaGUYSouth America200.891
6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa164.436
7ZambiaZMBEastern Africa157.635
8LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia149.169
9GhanaGHAWestern Africa131.770
10MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa131.343
11JordanJORWestern Asia130.077
12BurundiBDIEastern Africa126.497
13NicaraguaNICCentral America124.987
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia124.409
15AngolaAGOMiddle Africa119.008
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa117.136
17TajikistanTJKCentral Asia112.813
18MoldovaMDAEastern Europe112.473
19SomaliaSOMEastern Africa112.331
20MalawiMWIEastern Africa105.029
21SudanSDNNorthern Africa99.341
22CameroonCMRMiddle Africa95.045
23MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia94.160
24SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe91.719
25Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa90.268

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1São Tomé and Príncipe423.554
  2. 2Liberia405.066
  3. 3Republic of the Congo244.775
  4. 4Guinea-Bissau226.233
  5. 5Guyana200.891

Lowest

  1. 113Iran6.511
  2. 112Botswana7.480
  3. 111Fiji11.070
  4. 110China13.797
  5. 109Mauritius18.496

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 60.452. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 113values changed, of 113 in both
  • 47 · 66rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2001.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 113 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2001). External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt/2001

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07Questions

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest external debt in External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001?

São Tomé and Príncipe, at 423.554, of the 113 countries in the file.

What year does External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001 cover?

113.

Where can I download External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001 the newest?

No. The newest held here is External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2024.

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